On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:24, stephan beal wrote:
> On Thursday 21 March 2002 13:04 pm, Adam Murdoch wrote:
> > > --- Adam Murdoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > You're not the only one.  In myrmidon, we changed if and unless to
> > > > test the property value against true/false/yes/no (with unset still
> > > > evaluating to false).
> > >
> > > And I assume set (to anything) will evaluate to true?
> >
> > Here's how the test gets evaluated:
> >
> > property not set => false
> > property set to 'false' => false
> > property set to anything other than 'false' => true
>
> That's how it SHOULD get evaluated, IMO, but that's not how it actually
> works
>
> (at least, in Ant 1.4.1). It goes like this:

Adam was referring to the "Myrmidon" ant2 proposal, not to a current release 
of Ant. Hopefully, in the not too far distant future, you'll be able to 
download it and try it out yourself.

> Then again, maybe it only responds to the word 'false', and not 'off' or
> 'no', as most other flags do?

I'll look at adding support for "off" and "no" when I convert the Myrmidon 
<if> task to use a new IfCondition.

ciao
Daz

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